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5.0.1b

about 15 months late (2012-03-05)

73%

55 issues   (38 closed — 17 open)

Related issues
Bug #9: List of operators in manpages of gmtmath and grdmath is mangled
Bug #25: xyz2grd hangs when last record starts with #
Bug #30: Using negative longitude grid with positive longitude range confuses grdimage
Bug #65: GMT5 - segment violation - several programs
Bug #81: grdinfo cannot handle grids with NaNs
Bug #107: psxy plots dashed lines in black only
Bug #108: psbasemap synopsis missing lines
Bug #144: ps2raster -Au removes degrees minutes seconds symbols
Bug #167: compile error GMT5 rev 10612
Bug #168: GMT5 - gmtmath DUP segmentation fault
Bug #169: map scale background box not adjusted properly
Bug #173: grdpaste - segment violation when using gdal read
Bug #175: When -R-1/180/... some areas on the continents are painted as sea
Bug #179: Combining -JZ and -E option on psbasemap
Bug #183: pslegend
Bug #186: error: 'MAX_PATH' undeclared
Bug #187: Transverse Mercator Error for lat0 -> +-90
Bug #196: gmtset MAP_DEGREE_SYMBOL='colon' adds an extra colon after seconds
Bug #200: problem with -B and stride in arc seconds
Bug #208: psxy -Sq not removes hidden lines with Orthographic and General Perspective projections
Bug #214: differences in mapproject when using Oblique Mercator projection
Bug #218: compile error GMT5 rev 10944
Bug #225: GMT 5 make manpages error
Bug #231: libgmt.so.5.0.1b: undefined reference to `GMTAPI_FFT'
Bug #236: psclip problem
Bug #239: blockm* not handling periodic data properly
Bug #245: meca supplement options need revision
Bug #258: apidemo: cmake error
Bug #259: sample1d on multi-segment files
Feature #10: Change the default on cmake build to GMT_INSTALL_MONOLITHIC
Feature #12: CMake target for creating a source release tarball
Feature #13: Need a way to use prebuild documentation for packaging
Feature #18: Guess the location of the share directory on Windows based on the location of the executable
Feature #19: Let NSIS license agreement depend on setting of LICENSE_RESTRICTED
Feature #20: Change default installation path for NSIS installer
Feature #36: mgd77 supplement: Add support for new MGD77T format
Feature #38: Migrate src/coast from the gmt repository to the GSHHS+WDBII repository
Feature #45: GMT5 now distributed under the GNU Lesser Public License v3 or later terms
Feature #49: GMT_COMPAT keywords warnings
Feature #51: Easy Install mechanism?
Feature #68: Use netCDF4 features on output
Feature #89: Add GMT_COMPAT_MODE to gmt.conf
Feature #96: Add --help option to GMT programs
Feature #104: Allow reading of 2-dimensional table data in netCDF format
Feature #170: pstext: ability to rotate the text string around X and Y axes when making a plot with a perspective view.
Feature #188: Automatically determine pslegend hight
Feature #206: Is NaN accepted with g*math ISFINITE?
Feature #207: In pstext allow the use of -Cdx/dy to set clearance between text and line when -Ddistv[pen]
Feature #213: explain in gmt manpage -R when Oblique Mercator projection is used
Feature #224: -R...r explanation in GMT_Docs
Feature #238: date formatting yyyy-jjj in -R option
Feature #240: Add a test in cmake for missing TeX styles and stop make with an error when compiling TeX files fails
Feature #248: FFTW need capability to reuse plan
Feature #266: Orientation of custom symbols at projection north
Feature #272: Implement executable building and linking

4.5.9

83%

6 issues   (5 closed — 1 open)

Related issues
Bug #44: xgridedit does not update new values
Bug #66: psxy in GMT4.5.7 does not return
Bug #69: error: ‘GSHHS_VERSION’ undeclared
Bug #158: Using psvelo and -A option
Bug #160: Using psvelo and -G option
Bug #163: Issues with x2sys_cross speed unit and distance gaps

Candidate for next minor release

Fixes that the contributors would like to add in the next minor version

91%

44 issues   (40 closed — 4 open)

Related issues
Bug #1: GMT_equal_double and GMT_equal_float fail for values close to zero
Bug #2: Buffer overflow in function GMT_equal_double
Bug #5: segfault in xgridedit
Bug #11: Index files for HTML documentation missing
Bug #14: Failure of test/grdimage/globalgrid
Bug #15: Failure of test/grdcontour/closed
Bug #16: Failure of test/psxy/conic
Bug #17: PDF files unnecessarily made when running "make check" (gmt5-cmake)
Bug #23: minmax leaks mem if there is a mismatch between actual and expected fields
Bug #24: Failure of test/pscoast/placement and test/pscoast/psuedo
Bug #39: Reading netCDF grids by row has strong performance impact
Bug #60: Undocumented parameters in gmt.conf
Bug #62: Binary read/write and byte-swapping functions broken
Bug #67: scripts not included in appendix P.
Bug #70: mgd77list segfaults on GEODAS file
Bug #72: surface leaks memory when called with -Ll or -Lu
Bug #73: Columns not selected by -i will be printed nonetheless
Bug #75: Function GMT_report reports the wrong __FILE__ and __LINE__
Bug #86: GMT records a wrong actual_range in the netCDF header
Bug #88: Documentation of actual_range in GMT_docs, Table B.1 is misleading
Bug #90: Reenable all external FFT algorithms
Bug #92: cmake test directory content
Bug #95: GMT programs return EXIT_SUCCESS on a syntax error
Bug #102: GMT segfaults if lower left and upper right map coordinates are incorrect
Bug #209: Missing tickmarks and deformed grid crosses
Bug #235: Failure of test/grdimage/grdread.sh
Bug #247: Multiple errors in pslegend
Feature #3: Turn gravfft into GMT module
Feature #4: Do GSHHS min version checks
Feature #6: Remove superfluous macros GMT_fopen et al.
Feature #7: Replace GMT_long with uint64_t
Feature #21: Run tests in build directory without copying sources
Feature #26: Let NSIS installer replace the GMT_SHAREDIR environment variable instead of appending to it
Feature #28: Additional to doc_release export man_release into the source release
Feature #42: Allow GSHHS not to be installed
Feature #54: Shortcut to set both *_PRIMARY and *_SECONDARY
Feature #55: Support for long options via getopt_long
Feature #61: PSL: do not use svn revisions for version checks
Feature #78: Strange defaults for TIME_SYSTEM, TIME_EPOCH, TIME_UNIT, and TIME_WEEK_START
Feature #94: Name of verbosity level GMT_MSG_FATAL is not meaningful
Feature #99: All GMT modules that use CPT-files should try for master CPT-files before giving up
Feature #100: Make GMT history (.gmtcommands) readonly
Feature #105: Indian map is wrongly shown
Feature #150: Speed up multiple DFTs, support saving FFTW plans (wisdom)